Monday, April 28, 2008

In an effort to make my blog more visually appealing, I've been trying to use images to spice up the page a bit. I use the advanced search option on Flickr and search for images that have Creative Commons licenses. The Flock browser provides the option of blogging the image I find. This allows me to copy it onto my blog page and automatically links the picture to the Flickr page where I found it.

I've been wondering for a while how to properly cite these images. Is there a proper format? Who is the author? Is the link enough or do I need to include more? I've been doing it a variety of ways - sometimes including the citation, sometimes just a link to the Flickr page.

I also went to my favorite personal learning network - Twitter. I got a variety of responses. You can see them below. The common thread among the responses is yes, you should cite them. The question of how to do it seems up in the air. I particularly like the idea of including a comment on the Flickr page when you do use an image. I'm going to do that from now on.

What do you think? How do you cite Flickr images?

lizbdavis Copyright Question: If I use a Creative Commons image from flickr on my blog, and link to the flikr page, should I also cite the source? about 7 hours ago from web